Year: 2009

We’ve all had that experience: a bunch of directed graphs in our heads that we’ve been thinking about rendering. However lacking in the time and expertise to do so, unrendered they remain. However, If you’ve got a little patience watch this screencast I recently made. It walks you through using ATT’s GraphViz tool to draw…

Was recently playing around with the ReportViewer control and wanted to share what I learned about using it in a WinForm app to show data with an object data source. I recording this screencast showing a step-by-step and end-to-end scenario of building such an application. Link to video: https://vimeo.com/7606689

So far, whenever I’ve shown how to develop SSRS reports in Dynamics AX 2009 I’ve always shown the preview and the report model as separate tabs that we have to switch to This is a pit painful because one can’t see changes to the report immediately, one always has to select the Preview tab…

Visio 2010 has dramatically improved shape edge rendering compared to Visio 2007. Visio 2007 Solid Fill with and edge and without an edge -> Looks fine Visio 2007 Gradient Fill with and edge and without an edge – > Looks fine with an edge, heavy aliasing when there is no edge Visio 2010 completely…

I found an interesting post on Deborah’s Developer MindScape (via Greg’s blog )and wanted to share a modification of the technique that can simplify the use of Office object models in C# and VB. I use this heavily in my VisioAutomation library. First, let’s look at the the Deborah’s original solution : var query…

In this post we are going to learn how to make reports that have links in them. As always, I start with some sample data. In this case, it will be a list of my favorite blogs. START WITH THE DATA First, I create a new Data Method This is the source code…

One of my side-projects requires me to build some of my own tools. In this case: a code generation tool. In a future post, I’ll describe the tool and provide its source, but for now I did want to share some of what I discovered on the way. First, the tool I am building essentially…

Not a provocative title for this blog post, but it is what it is. This week I needed to programmatically generate from C# from the list of sections, rows, cells, etc in Visio. My first discovery is that this information doesn’t already exist in a single place – it’s scattered over many pages in MSDN….

In my last post I took a detour from the Data Method topic and explored how to put bitmaps into reports. This post is going I’ll merge the two topics – instead of embedding and image or retrieving it from another source we are going to build a report that creates bitmaps on-the-fly and places…

Up until now I’ve been talking about data and code that generates it with Data Methods . In this post, I’ll show you how to put images into your reports. First let’s get an image. I found one of the sample Windows 7 pictures and made it smaller and then placed that image on my…